U.S. Tour with Honduran author Melissa Cardoza and singer Karla Lara

April 20 -May 23 , 2017

When Honduran indigenous environmental leader Berta Cáceres was assassinated last year, many of our members were deeply impacted. Through our work building the World March of Women we had learned about Berta's leadership and the work of COPINH. GGJ members moved our alliance to take up the Justice for Berta campaign because it was very clear that US military aide and US support for the military coup was central to the conditions that led to her assassination.

World March of Women members from around the world were out on the streets in solidarity with us in the United States on January 21, 2017 as part of the Women’s March on Washington. As we are dealing with the repercussions of Trump’s administration on our communities, it is important to note that many countries around the world have also faced the rise of a reactionary right-wing governments, impacting women and people of color in particular.

On January 10th, we held our third and last call in the post-elections series, on Lessons from International Resistances to Right Wing Regimes. With the global phenomenon of the shift to the right, we know that in the US we are not facing nationalism, fear, anti-immigrant sentiments, or neoliberalism alone. In fact, our international allies have been struggling with these for longer than we have, and have lots that we could draw from. We had an incredible panel of speakers who shared with us the political context of their countries, and lessons for us to learn from.